Fellow and supervising attorney for Human Rights Clinic
Caroline Bettinger-López is the Human Rights Fellow and Attorney at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute and Clinic. Her principal interests include gender and race discrimination, human rights, immigrants’ rights, and violence against women.
Ms. Bettinger-Lopez engages in litigation and other forms of advocacy before the Inter-American human rights system, United Nations, and state and federal courts. She primarily focuses on U.S. human rights projects, including the development and implementation of domestic human rights strategies for HRI and its partners, and the supervision of cases and projects for the Human Rights Clinic. She is a member of the International Human Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association. Prior to joining Columbia, Ms. Bettinger-Lopez was a Skadden Fellow and Staff Attorney at the ACLU Women’s Rights Project and a law clerk for the Honorable Sterling Johnson, Jr. in the Eastern District of New York.
Ms. Bettinger-Lopez is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she received her J.D., and the University of Michigan, where she received her B.A. in Anthropology. She is author of “International Union, U.A.W. v. Johnson Controls: The History of Litigation Alliances and Mobilization to Challenge Fetal Protection Policies,” in Civil Rights Stories (Foundation Press) (with Susan Sturm, forthcoming, 2008); “Jessica Gonzales v. United States: An Emerging Model for Domestic Violence and Human Rights Advocacy in the United States,” (Harvard Human Rights Law Journal) (forthcoming, Spring 2008); and Cuban-Jewish Journeys: Searching for Identity, Home, and History in Miami (Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2000).
